Regarding your comment, it was quite cold the day of the parade, which might have kept some spectators indoors, but I tend to photograph where there are gaps in crowds when it comes to spectators anyway. What I did notice were a good number of store employees watching from their windows, and the same for apartment dwellers.

Don't listen to those deniers! Those insulasaurus wiritas are not extinct, just rare. They crawl along vines in their native habitat. These just got lost. Worry not, they always find their way back home. ;-)